EU

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EU IT Pilot Project in the field of Education

• Dr Jacek Gajewski       Key Expert 1 (Team
  Leader)       mr. sc. Sonja Priscan, MBA     
   Key Expert 2

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Dr Jacek Gajewski

• Jacek Gajewski co-authored the first Polish
  application to join BITNET (1988) and a petition
  to President Bush (1989), which allowed
  post-communist countries to be connected to
  international computer networks.
• From 1994 to 1999 he lead the "Internet for
  Schools" (IdS) Project (later Foundation,
  Department), which connected first 1300 Polish
  schools, wrote Internet textbooks and trained
  first generation of ICT school teachers. In 1997,
  the IdS project was recognized by a G7 jury as
  the second best world-wide.
• He has worked as a consultant and project
  manager/evaluator for numerous projects run by
  UNDP, EU, OSI (Soros Foundation) and NATO.
• Gajewski holds PhD in Elementary Particle Physics
  from Warsaw University, Doctor h.c. from
  Nakhicevan University, he is a member of Internet
  Society (ISOC). He has been awarded with the
  Golden Cross of Merit for the development of
  Polish Internet. He is co-author of 70 scientific
  publications.

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mr. sc. Sonja Priscan

• Education
• graduated and made her masters theses at Faculty
  of electrical engeenering and computer science,
  University of Zagreb
•  Cotrugil Business School, Zagreb, MBA
• Three years ago established Incremedia company
  specilized for econtent development
• 2005. 2006. KING ICT, Education Services
• eContent development (ECDLBOX, ECDLBOX Adnavedi)
• leading and setting-up the first project of ECDL
  training - 4.250 teachers
• She is in the field of eLearning since 1999. When
  she was working for CARNet. Her activities were
  related to supporting and encouraging university
  professors to use eLearning 

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Goals and objectives

•     To support Kosovo Government to improve
  education system through support in
• ICT, e-education and e-learning awareness,
  training and practice,
• development of eContent and its delivery,
• improving e-learning competence
• among teachers, teacher trainers and in school
  administration,
• creation of educational network

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Stakeholders, target group(s), overall duration,
funding, staff

• Beneficiaries of the project schools, didactic
  centres, municipalities, University of Prishtina,
  MEST
• Stakeholders beneficiaries, donors their
  projects, trainingcentres, public libraries,
  Ministry of Transport, backbone providers
• Target groups Stakeholders, educators,
• IT technicians, students, trainers, professors,
• researchers administrators in Education sector
• Duration 24 month starting from 1st February
  2010,
• Funding 2 Million Euro
• Project Staff 2 Key Experts, 10 local experts,
• 30 trainers, 3 administrative

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Overview of components

• EU - IT Pilot Project will work with limited
  number (25 schools and education institutions)
   of beneficiaries to be involved in the pilot
• as a test bed for use of ICT and e-learning in
  education
• to assess the level of assessment and commitment
  of stakeholders
• The project is linked separate 1 Million Euro
  Supplies Contract/Tender to equip beneficiaries.
• The project has 5 main components
• eReadiness and Policy of eEducation
• Identification of Pilot Schools and Equipment
  required
• ICT trainings and training institutions
• Development of eContent for Education
• Development of EDUNet and community portal

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Overview of components

• EU - IT Pilot Project will work with limited
  number (25 schools and education institutions)
   of beneficiaries to be involved in the pilot
• as a test bed for use of ICT and e-learning in
  education
• to assess the level of assessment and commitment
  of stakeholders
• The project is linked separate 1 Million Euro
  Supplier Contract/Tender to equip beneficiaries.
• The project has 5 main components
• eReadiness and Policy of eEducation
• Identification of Pilot Schools and Equipment
  required
• ICT trainings and training institutions
• Development of eContent for Education
• Development of EDUNet and community portal

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Overview of components

• EU - IT Pilot Project will work with limited
  number (25 schools and education institutions)
   of beneficiaries to be involved in the pilot
• as a test bed for use of ICT and e-learning in
  education
• to assess the level of assessment and commitment
  of stakeholders
• The project is linked separate 1 Million Euro
  Supplies Contract/Tender to equip beneficiaries.
• The project has 5 main components
• eReadiness and Policy of eEducation
• Identification of Pilot Schools and Equipment
  required
• ICT trainings and training institutions
• Development of eContent for Education
• Development of EDUNet and community portal

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Overview of components

• EU - IT Pilot Project will work with limited
  number (25 schools and education institutions)
   of beneficiaries to be involved in the pilot
• as a test bed for use of ICT and e-learning in
  education
• to assess the level of assessment and commitment
  of stakeholders
• The project is linked separate 1 Millio Euro
  Supplier Contract/Tender to equip beneficiaries.
• The project has 5 main components
• eReadiness and Policy of eEducation
• Identification of Pilot Schools and Equipment
  required
• ICT trainings and training institutions
• Development of eContent for Education
• Development of EDUNet and community portal

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Overview of components

• EU - IT Pilot Project will work with limited
  number (25 schools and education institutions)
   of beneficiaries to be involved in the pilot
• as a test bed for use of ICT and e-learning in
  education
• to assess the level of assessment and commitment
  of stakeholders
• The project is linked separate 1 Million Euro
  Supplies Contract/Tender to equip beneficiaries.
• The project has 5 main components
• eReadiness and Policy of eEducation
• Identificatio of Pilot Schools and Equipment
  required
• ICT trainings and training institutions
• Development of eContent for Education
• Development of EDUNet and community portal

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Component 1 Institutional Readiness for use of
ICT in learning, teaching and administration in
education

• Analysis of eReadiness of the Education System in
  Kosovo
• (use questionnaires, focus group, available data
  and side visits)
• Development of an eEducation Strategy and Action
  Plan on use of ICT in Education in Kosovo
• (based on results of the analysis and in the
  framework of group decision making methodology)
• Recommendation for the legal framework
• (to examine, through consultations and
  legislative review,
• the need and requirements for developing a legal
  
• framework and prepare recommendations)

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Component 2 Identification of Pilot Schools and
Equipment required

• Identification of beneficiaries of IT Pilot
  Project
• Definition of priorities and transparent criteria
  for selection ofbeneficiaries
• Design a template/questionnaire to assess
  proposed beneficiaries
• Collecting and analyzing answers
• Cross checking (visiting) preselected
  beneficiaries, final selection
• Review and Finalize draft Dossier for Supplies
  Tender/Contract
• Review, proposal consultation with stakeholders
• Finalize draft Tender Dossier

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Component 3 Provision of ICT Trainings and
capacity building of ICT training institutions

• Support in establishment of ICT Centre at
  Prishtina University, MoU
• Technical assistance support in the establishment
  of ICT support centers
• Training of IT technicians to support schools (60
  technicians)
• Training of teachers and education staff in ICT
  (2000 persons)
• Training of eContent developers (100 developers)

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Component 4 Development and piloting of eContent
Material for Education

• Development of eContent Material for selected
  number of courses for pilot testing
• (eContent should be piloted in chosen schools to
  provide MEST with guidelines and recommendations)
• Provide Repository for efficient eContent
  Management       
• (to share and reuse the developed content)

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Component 5  Development of EDUNet and community
portal

• Development of central academic network
• preliminary design (for pilot project but able to
  scale up to NREN) ,
• analysis of existing facilities, list of
  standards for center and members
• Training of staff and support personnel (NOC,
  Helpdesk)
• Final design, deployment, testing, improvements
• Development of Web portal for academic community
• design as CMS and communication platform,
  inclusion of repository and LMS
• training of Web Editor, preparing training
  material for users, initial roll out
• conducting Pilot system system deployment,
  monitoring, review of results

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Project Management and organization

• ECLO as Contracting Authority manages the
  contract with KING ICT.
• Program Steering Committee (ECLO, MEST,
  MoTransport, University of Pristina, 1-2
  Donors/Projects, KING-ICT, 2xKey Experts, MEST
  contact person, other experts as invited) meeting
  regularly (at least every 3 month)
• Everyday management done by Team Leader in
  consultation with ECLO Task Manager, MEST Contact
  Person, KING ICT Project Officer and KE2.
• Various Working groups for specific issues.

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Cooperation and harmonization with other projects

• To avoid duplication of effort and ensure timely
  coordination
• with AUK in IT (ECDL) training,
• with PTK in connectivity for schools,
• with ??? in deployment of computer cabinets in
  Schools
• with World Bank (and MPA?) in developing network
  for school administration
• To get data needed for proper execution of EU -
  IT project
• list of schools and existing equipment
• list of previously trained or creative teachers
• To induce in other running projects changes
  fostering e-learning
• accredit courses on e-learning, award e-activity
  of teachers
• This will be achieved by meetings, both formal
  (seminars, presentations) and informal.

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Dissemination, Visibility

• Apart observing ECLO Visibility Rules (logos,
  flags, etc) the project itself plans
• Kick-off meeting with media presence after
• acceptance of IR (leaflet, press release)
• (scientific) workshop at UP
• Project presentations at teacher's and ICT
• conferences
• own conference for teachers around end of school
• year 2010/2011 with media presence
• project Web-site, discussion forum and e-mail
  help desk
• summer camp for creative teachers and ICT
  talented students
• regular meetings with stakeholders, word of mouth

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Action plan for till beginning of 2010/2011
school year

• Inception Report (delivery 15.3, acceptance
  30.4?)
• E-readiness assessment (31.08)
• Identification and selection of beneficiaries
  (31.08)
• Drafting the Supply tender (30.5)
• Training of Trainers (30.6)
• Concept which e-Content should be developed
  (30.08)
• Initial design of EDUNet (30.8)
• First training of administrative staff (1.7-30.08)

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Our wish-list towards participants

• to MEST
• define contact person (interlocutor) for daily
  contacts     - define person for approval of
  Time Sheets
• to UP
• define person(s) to cooperate on creation of ICT
  trainingcentre and EDUNet NOC
• to  SWISSCONTACT
• define a person to coordinate realization of
  e-learning strategy
• To all
• delegate (volunteer? self-nominations welcome)
  representatives toour "focus group", and/or
• take part in the work of our (future) working
  groups